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We have a chance to build something special on Elysium. Let’s not ruin it. We finally have a scalable solution for Hyperliquid and the first value accruing L2 in history, with access to the tools and infrastructure that make Hyperliquid so powerful. The products we build and the activity we bring in can create enormous value for this ecosystem and its native tokens. Please keep the toxicity off Hyperliquid and Elysium. It’s literally day one. Leave that energy on other chains. Grow the pie. e/acc

Appreciate this a lot ika, one thing I can assure everyone is I'll continue to show up every day, even during the darkest times. I've been in crypto since ~2021 where I was blasting alts shilled on YouTube channels, turned ~100k to ~500k and roundtripping it all to a loss during NFT's, went from being a top signal aping the pico top of Pepe for over a year to being a high conviction trader helping run some trading groups like @DigiWorldd & @VersusFNF, to now being a co-founder of @AscendLaunch with a mission to change the standards of the entire industry. Our vision for Ascend is to raise the standard for how crypto projects should be operating. Rather than coming from a perspective of extraction, we want the industry to give value back to the ecosystem. It's not an easy feat, and we've gotten laughed at many times, fudded many times, but we're here to work on that vision. There will be plenty of mistakes we make along the way, issues we have to deal with, FUD, but I can promise we will show up day after day. As someone who's been trading actively in the markets for multiple years, the pivot to being a founder has not been easy whatsoever, but I'm up for the challenge. Our team's background as 7-8 figure traders & running top FNF's & trading groups means we've seen all the extraction that has happened in the space, and we want to make a change here. Value should go back to those who empower protocols, in our case, traders, builders, and stakers. We've built our entire launchpad around aligning incentives for participants & the ecosystem we're building on. Directing a majority of our protocol fees towards $HYPE & $KNTQ buybacks with no protocol token of ourselves, rewarding stakers with our HYPE program, helping teams by giving them a catalyst pipeline supported by buybacks + subsidizing costs for HyperCore spot listings, working with @Kinetiq_xyz to get tokens listed on HIP-3 perps, and even past that giving additional liquidity to top teams. Stakers want to receive more $HYPE, so that's what we give them. Traders want PvE coins, so that's what we give them. Builders want their tokens to do well, and additional resources to help bring their product & vision to life. Those who know me know that my trading style is that of high conviction. Never have I been more convicted on any thesis than what we're building at @AscendLaunch. Bring value back to the ecosystem, make PvE plays exist again, and let every participant win. I'm confident in our team and vision, let's change this industry for good. Ascend to Elysium.

Ascend Community. We are deeply sorry for the delay in rolling out the full website. Our site was hit with a coordinated DDoS attack early this morning that lasted 8 straight hours and set us back quite a bit. We needed extra time to put additional protections in place to help prevent this from happening again. We’re working to make sure everything rolls out smoothly, including staking and the Ascend Points Program. We built this program to reward creators who are serious about building projects that last. If you’re putting in the work to grow your project and build a community around it, we want to reward that. We’re also taking extra care with the staking rollout. We take security very seriously, and that’s part of why we’ve needed a little more time. Really appreciate you guys being patient with us. We are close to Ascending.

Genuinely speechless, all these crazy developments happening is absolutely insane for the @Enter_Elysium trenches @AscendLaunch will become the home of PVE plays. Huge respect to @smartestmoney, one of the legends & a top holder of $HYPE & kinetiq:native. e/acc

PSA to all of the Ascend and Elysium community. I keep seeing a lot of posts about the friction Ascend created when we launched so I wanna speak on that myself. If I’d spent weeks getting a community off the ground and woke up to a copy of our coin trading on Ascend, I’d be pretty annoyed too. So I do see where a lot of your guys frustration comes in. Stay with me here. Ascend is a fully permissionless launchpad. Anyone can go on the site and launch whatever they want without talking to me or anyone on the team. We never set out to vamp another project or pull people away from a community they’d already built. One of the coolest parts of this past week has been seeing people rally around Blob, e/acc, chameleon. Some not launched on Ascend, and I’m still hyped to see it. Elysium hasn’t even officially launched yet and people already have a community here they care enough about to defend. These are the vibes we need to bring back to crypto. A lot of you guys know me from when I was apart of Azuki community. Half the time you knew who was tweeting just from their PFP. I miss that. In crypto now it feels like people are already asking “what’s next?” before they’ve even gotten to know the people in the coin they just bought. A big reason we built Ascend was to keep supporting projects after launch and give those communities time to grow. I also want to clarify about why we were quiet when trading started. We were asked to hold off on saying Ascend was live during private testing. The plan was always to deploy on Elysium early so we could test the protocol and integrate partners ahead of November 9. People figured out how to bridge in and started trading. We can't control who bridges in, but I also get how it looked from your side. You could see trades going through and you hadn’t heard a word from us. The Ascend model is fully built on giving value back to you guys. We believe that to many top protocols in the space rip so much value from the ecosystem and give very minimal value back. Ascend wants to make the change that we all wanna see happen so bad in our industry. The team and I have put a lot of late nights into Ascend. I’m proud of what we’ve built and I can’t wait for you guys to get your hands on the full product when Elysium officially launches on November 9.

I don’t think people realize how key Hyperliquid’s infra is to having fun in the trenches again. @AscendLaunch gives you a direct path from launch to an Ascended listing, then a HyperCore spot listing, HIP-3 perps and eventually a shot at becoming an Ascend strategic partner. Congrats to the e/acc team

For those that want to bet on Ascend, kinetiq:native is the token.

Highly agree with this tweet, and important for people to understand. Ascend is a permissionless launchpad, anyone can launch whatever they like. We are fully aligned with kinetiq:native and $HYPE, while having no protocol token of ourselves. Inherently, people will do what they do - launching tokens that have been done plenty of times, we can't stop that, however, we have a responsibility to make sure volume on Elysium is sustainable by giving back value to the ecosystem rather than extracting or buying up their own launchpad token.

A thread on what we've designed at Ascend to combat extractive fee structures and launchpads. We've spent months studying nearly every major launchpad, breaking down their fee structures, tokenomics, and the problems that have held this industry back. One of the biggest problems is how much value gets extracted from the ecosystem. Traders generate the volume, creators collect fees regardless of their intentions, and capital that could support the ecosystem ends up in the hands of bad actors. We've designed Ascend to change this.

A lot of you noticed that the password on Ascend was lifted a while ago, and I've seen all the questions and speculation surrounding it. I want to make one thing clear. The decision to lift the password was intentional. Every step we take at Ascend has a purpose. I also want to clear up some confusion. Contracts that exist on Ascend will continue to exist beyond November 9th. Nothing is being wiped or reset. That being said, I recognize we could've communicated this much better, and I take responsibility for that. Transparency with our community has always been important to us, and we'll continue to hold ourselves to that standard. November 9th, we Ascend to Elysium.